Andrew Chan: Our New Instructor

Two New Advanced Lecture Series: Trigger Point Therapy & ROM Measurements

Manual osteopath, Andrew Chan (who is also president of the National Osteopathic Alumni Association) has been hired to give 12 advanced lectures on trigger point therapy, as well as up to 12 lectures on active and passive range of motion measurements.

We welcome Andrew to our teaching faculty.

How Does Visceral Manipulation Work?

A simplified & brief description of how osteopathic visceral manipulation works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8BUmbEJKxI   

New Lectures: Sports Specific Osteopathic Care

Quebec osteopath, Ann Shivas, DOMP has joined our faculty to teach a number of lectures on sports specific osteopathic care. Ann is a graduate of National Academy of Osteopathy and a previous member of Canada’s National Female Soccer Team.

Her lectures cover advanced topics such as:
Testing sports specific arthro-kinematics
Analyzing whole body movements
Testing joint ‘buffers’
Athletic posture assessment
Mental stability/Concussions 

We welcome Ann to our faculty.

Why are our graduates so skilled in osteopathy?

Our campus based students spend up to 100 hours per month in our technique classes. Most other osteopathic schools in Canada have a maximum of 16 hours of technique classes per month.
Our students practice more, learn more techniques than any other school and therefore become better clinicians.

The clinical skills of our students is evident in the high satisfactions of our patients at our student clinic and their own patients when they graduate.

We have so many people apply to our schools to study osteopathy after receiving treatments from our students.

Their skills as manual osteopaths and their knowledge of business management is what makes our alumni so successful in their own practice. This is why they love their Alma Mater so much!

GST

A post from our student Mark MacKenzie that is worth re-posting, in regards to HST (harmonized sales tax):

  Ireceived the following in an email from a tax office in BC ( maybe not applicable in NS? PST vs HST?)

Thank you for your inquiry.

Provincial sales tax (PST) applies to sales and leases of tangible personal property (TPP), software, related services, legal services, telecommunication services, and accommodation.

The purchase of taxable TPP (goods) is subject to PST at a rate of seven percent.

Related services are services provided in BC to goods, such as repair, adjustment, restoration, reconditioning, refinishing and maintenance services, and services provided to install goods.

Services provided to an individual, such as osteopathy services, are not subject to PST.

Osteopathy Improves Function

Research finds osteopathic manipulative treatment improves function in patients suffering from chronic low back pain.

 http://www.news-medical.net/news/20160301/Osteopathic-manipulative-treatment-improves-function-in-patients-suffering-from-chronic-low-back-pain.aspx

6 Osteopathy Sessions Decreased Disability by 50%

Research finds JUST 6 Osteopathy SESSIONS (in a period of 2 months) reduced pain and disability by more than 50% in majority of 455 patients evaluated. Research was published in the Journal of American Osteopathic Association (JAOA).

We always keep saying that our popularity and the reason we are Canadian's number one choice for low back pain relief is our ability to treat chronic pain. And this research proves it!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-finds-osteopathy-effective-treatment-chronic-lower-back-161629468.html 

The link to JAOA article is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26927908

Silence Retreat

I regularly go to silence retreat and every day spend a few minutes thinking in silence. I teach this to my students as well. I just read a research that shows this actually (at least in mice) improves your brain!

My students, aside from learning osteopathy, learn everything I know about business management and life improvement. That is one reason we are so popular and our graduates so successful, financially and emotionally.

Here is the link to the article:
http://www.lifehack.org/…/science-says-silence-much-more-im…

Dr Shawn Pourgol, MBA, DC, DO, PhD
NAO professor/president/founder

Why I became a Manual Osteopath

Manual osteopath; Justin Frankson, DOMP who practices in British Columbia, Canada has this to say about National Academy of Osteopathy:

National Academy of Osteopathy was the name of the school that gave me my preparation as a Manual Osteopath. I chose NAO because their program is very complete, also the institution has high standard models of teaching (I know this because I studied in a specialized and prestigious school of physiotherapy in south America). NAO not only teaches you about osteopathy but also helps you with business lectures, so you can manage your own business. The teachers are very knowledgeable with classes prepared in a way that its easy for you to understand.

NAO is not just a school, is a community where students not only become graduates but also family.
My name is Justin Frankson, DOMP, Manual Osteopath. Grad 2014. I work in Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada.

302 2600 Gladys Ave
Abbotsford, BC
604.746.1946

To read the full article please click on the link below.

http://ccosteopathy.blogspot.ca/2016/04/six-years-ago-i-decided-to-start-my.html 

Osteopathy in French Guadeloupe Island

Our mission is to expand osteopathy to every corner of the world so patients everywhere could benefit from this wonderful health care. We teach in 54 countries and expanded osteopathy to so many countries where it did not exist before (such as Tanzania, Brunei, etc). Now we are glad to mention that soon osteopathy is coming to the Guadeloupe Island of France.

Guadeloupe is a French island in the Caribbean Sea, that is considered part of the European Union. The currency is Euro and it is part of the Eurozone.

We have admitted a student from this island to the osteopathy program of one of our schools. Soon the 400,000 population of this beautiful French Island will have access to best osteopathic care possible. 

 

 

Research on Osteopathic Visceral Techniques

Brain scan shows how osteopathic visceral techniques of organs help patients through the central nervous system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6HbKRl5JRg&sns=fb 

Friends of Osteopathy in Ontario Parliament

National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) president Dr Shawn Pourgol, MBA, DC, DO, PhD was invited today to the Ontario Parliament by Honorable Dr Reza Moridi, PhD, MPP, the Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges & Universities.

Dr Pourgol was fortunate enough to also speak with Honorable John Tory, the Toronto Mayor and Honorable Kathleen Wynne the Ontario Premier.

These distinguished politicians are all friends of osteopathy and every year send greetings to our students.

NAO Professor Coaches Race Car Driver

World famous sports nutrition specialist, Professor Abazar Habibinia who teaches nutrition and other subjects at National Academy of Osteopathy supervises Daniel Morad, a Canadian race car driver for his competition in Florida, USA.

Daniel won the first place at the Formula BMW USA car race championship in 2007. He is the rising star in car racing.

We are proud of our professors. They are distinguished in the field they teach.